v. 799. _botowme_] “I can make no _bottoms_ of this threde ... _glomera_.” Hormanni _Vulgaria_, sig. t i. ed 1530.
Page 394. v. 803. _With burris rowth and bottons surffillyng_]—_burris rowth_, i. e. burrs rough: _bottons_, i. e. buds: _surffillyng_, see note, p. 281. v. 219.
v. 804. _nedill wark_] i. e. needle-work.
v. 815. _captacyons of beneuolence_] Todd gives “_Captation_ (old Fr. _captation_, ruse, artifice). The practice of catching favour or applause; courtship; flattery.” _Johnson’s Dict._ Richardson, after noticing the use of the verb _captive_ “with a subaudition of gentle, attractive, persuasive means or qualities,” adds that in the present passage of Skelton _captation_ is used with that subaudition. _Dict._ in v.
_Sith ye must nedis afforce it by pretence_ _Of your professyoun vnto vmanyte_]
i. e. Since you must needs attempt, undertake, it by your claim to the profession of humanity,—_humaniores literæ_, polite literature.
Page 394. v. 819. _proces_] i. e. discourse; see notes, p. 143. v. 735. p. 230 (first note on prose), p. 276. v. 2506, &c.
v. 821. _sentence ... couenable_] i. e. meaning ... fitting.
Page 395. v. 825. _ken_] i. e. instruct (pleonastically coupled with “informe,” as in v. 1428).
v. 828. _dredfull_] i. e. full of dread, timorous.
v. 830. _bestad_] i. e. bested, circumstanced.
v. 833. _gabyll rope_] i. e. cable-rope. “A _Gable_, Rudens.” Coles’s _Dict._
—— _Countes of Surrey_] See note on v. 769. p. 317.
v. 838. _reconusaunce_] i. e. acknowledgment.
v. 842. _honour and worshyp_] Terms nearly synonymous: _worshyp_, i. e. dignity.
—— _formar_] i. e. first, highest: see Todd’s _Johnson’s Dict._ in v. _Former_.
“his fellaw dan _Polimites_, Of which the brother dan Ethiocles,” &c.
Chaucer’s _Troilus and Creseide_, B. v. fol. 180,—_Workes_, ed. 1602.
Lydgate’s _Storye of Thebes, Pars tert._ sig. i v. ed. 4to. n. d.
v. 847. _counterwayng_] i. e. counter-weighing.
Page 396. v. 850. _Pamphila_] “Telas araneorum modo texunt ad vestem luxumque fœminarum, quæ bombycina appellatur. Prima eas redordiri, rursusque texere invenit in Ceo mulier _Pamphila_, Latoi filia, non fraudanda gloria excogitatæ rationis ut denudet fœminas vestis.” Plinii _Nat. Hist._ lib. xi. 26.